AKIRA - The Architecture of Neo Tokyo
4 June – 4 September 2022
Tchoban Foundation. Museum for Architectural Drawing
Berlin, Germany
59 original artworks such as production backgrounds, layout drawings, concept designs and imageboards which had been used to create Neo Tokyo in the animated feature will be on display. Exclusive access to the studio archives of the artists involved in AKIRA’s production allows the presentation of artworks that have never been presented in an exhibition and only very few of them have ever been published. The exhibition includes works by Toshiharu Mizutani who served as the production’s art director and his colleagues Katsufumi Hariu, Norihiro Hiraki, Shinji Kimura, Satoshi Kuroda, Hiromasa Ogura, Hiroshi Ohno, Hajime Soga, Tsutomu Uchida and Takashi Watabe.
The exhibition is curated by Stefan Riekeles, Managing Director of the Riekeles Gallery, in collaboration with Nadejda Bartels, Director of Tchoban Foundation. Hiroko Kimura-Myokam of Eizo Workshop G.K. (Japan) is co-curator of the show.